Despawn Interrupt DI
1.0.0 1.1.0 1.1.1 1.1.2 1.2.0 1.2.1 1.3.0/1.4.0 1.4.1 1.4.2 1.4.3 Switch 2
Summary
A similar glitch to void dipping that has additional properties and is done with a molduga or frox.
Discovered by mulberry; optimizations by mulberry, Squidwest - 16 January 2026
Instructions
Method 1 (1.2+, setupless frox setup)
- Approach a frox and wait until it is about to do a swallow attack. This is done most easily if you have a travel medallion directly next to the frox
- Put your target item between you and the frox and target it with fuse
- Right before the frox swallows the target, fuse it to a piece of equipment, preferably a shield
- Quickly pause the game
- Drop the equipment you fused to, equip another item of the same type, then unequip
- Unpause the game
- Pick up the dropped equipment and run away from the frox
- If done correctly, the fused item will now be in a despawn interrupted state and ghosted
- If you wish, detangle the fused item from its base.
This is easiest if the item you fused to was a shield
Method 2 (1.2+, easier molduga setup)
- FE your target to a shield
- Drop your item near a molduga so that the molduga notices it
- Right after the molduga begins to jump, drop the fuse entangled shield, equip another shield, and unequip it
- Pick it up and retrive the target
- If you wish, detangle it from the base shield
Method 3 (1.0-1.1.2, older versions molduga setup)
- FE your target to Mineru
- Place the target near a molduga so the molduga notices it
- Climb so that mineru culls right after the molduga jumps out of the sand
- Retrive you target and if you wish, detangle it from mineru
Setup for DI ghosts
DI can propagate to other pieces of equipment, by making a DI ghost. Here are methods to do so:
Method 1 (1.2+)
- Smuggle the DI equipment (Drop it, equip another item of the same type, and then unequip that item)
- Equip an item of the same type
- Fuse the thing you want to put in the DI state to the thing you just equipped
- Quickly after fusing, a couple frames after the FE frame, drop the fuse base, equip another item of the same type, and unequip it
- If you wish to detangle from the normal parent, you may distance despawn it or use octo detanglement. The distance method should be done before detangling from the DI parent
- If you want to detantangle from the DI parent, you may simply smuggle it, equip an item of the same type, and then fuse to that item
Method 2 (1.0-1.1.2)
- Smuggle the DI equipment using the same drop swap unequip method
- FE an item of the same type to mineru and pick it up
- Fuse the thing you want to DI right before mineru culls
- Drop the item that you fuse entangled to mineru
- Same rules for detanglement apply
Notes
- Also known as "Eaten DI". Often referred to as "Frox Dipping" or as "Duga Dipping".
- ALthough void dipping is also technically a form of despawn iterrupt, DI and despawn interrupt refers to the eaten variation by convention.
Resources
- Spreadsheet link
- Original discovery
- Molduga optimization
Link's Luxury Loadout